i got polls now so i'm kicking this off with something that's been eating at me for a good month or so
this poll brought to you by people calling kazuki and rei from buddy daddies--an anime where, by mere premise alone, they are parenting a child as daddies together--"unshippable" because canon isn't really giving them much in the way of romantic chemistry, and me realizing with a start that people are operating on such vastly different definitions of "shippable" than me that we might as well not be talking abt the same thing at all
my own long answer is: for me a ship can exist as long as the characters exist. period. some things will make me more or less likely to ship them (canon interaction, subtext, motifs, premise, structural parallels etc) but on principle any ship can be "shippable" as long as the barebones elements of a ship, that is to say two or more entities that can be regarded as separate (does not even have to be two different characters per se--selfcest exists), are present. nor does the ship have to be necessarily romantic in nature! as long as you can smash em together in whatever fashion that is a ship and it is shippable. i personally cannot imagine being someone who requires canon to feed me textual chemistry or an overt basis for a ship for my imagination to run in that direction, but i think that depends on the canon and characters also
i really need to stop being surprised when people are like "well there should at least be something in canon to go off of" bc that is like. technically the "normal" way to read media. i forget that most people are not clinically insane over characters
My criteria: Do I think it would be interesting?
That's it.
antique-romantic
